VICE Asia | One of the World's Best Healthcare System Is Cracking | Gen Taiwan @VICEAsia | Uploaded October 2023 | Updated October 2024, 6 days ago.
Taiwan has what is considered one of the world’s best healthcare systems, a single payer system run by the government. Patients pay a premium benchmarked to their income, and co-payments to a general practitioner costs around $2.50.

But this low-cost approach is cracking with declining birth rates and an aging population adding more pressure. VICE journeys inside Taiwan’s well-oiled health system to understand why change is needed.

@1:02 Due to an error introduced during editing, the sentence should be "Even a large medical center, like our Taipei Veterans General Hospital" and not "centre".
@2:29 the cost in USD should be USD 75,000 rather than USD 750,000. We regret the error.

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